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"David Eduardo" wrote:

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Bob Dobbs wrote:
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These broadcasters are insane to do things like HD/IBOC to restrict
and limit their already-dwindling audiences. They should be working
to INCREASE their coverage area and listenership; not reduce it.
The only coverage that counts is in their home markets.

DX listeners don't count in the business model.
They never have since the early 50's.

Your only experience with what counts depends on someone with extra
time
filling out a diary truthfully and having their circumstance being
actually representative of a desirable demographic rather than the
fantasy many of those people present as you do in this forum.

So KFI's reputation as a powerful station with listeners afar doesn't
help its local ratings?

I don't see how it would. People listen if they like it, not because
someone 200 miles away can hear it (which with the two Mexicans on, they
can't)

One would think that would be less of an issue as one went further away
from Mexico.

KFI is in LA, and the two major interferers in the mountain west are in
northern and southern Chihuahua state; as you move away from LA, most
locations in the US will be at about the same distance from Chihuahua but
farther and farther from LA. And by the time you get to the midwest (beyond
the KFI protected night signal reach anyway) there is the Tulancingo
station, 50 kw, to contend with, as well as Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.

People like adopting winners.

Depending on the evening I hear a spanish speaking station under KFI and
I am only 78 miles north of KFI.

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Telamon
Ventura, California